Fun Run Project Update - May 2014

It's only five months until the Fun Run on 19 October but we are making good progress towards creating awareness of our cause and the event.

 

Forty-five registered for our first Awareness Seminar on Anxiety & Depression in Young People and thirty-five (excluding four club members) attended - a good result.  All have been followed up and there are already 4 registrations for the June Seminar, all as a result of the last.  The advertising of the seminars in the community has been successful but the corporations in Macquarie Park are very hard to penetrate.  The promotion for the 25 June Seminar on Anxiety in 7-17 year olds has just started with the first posters up in shopping centres and churches.  We will also promote it through the local newspapers as they were a successful channel last time.

 

The next steps are to detail the operational aspects of the event.  Mike Hetherington together with Paul Gray from Macquarie Sport & Recreation will be working out the details in the next couple of weeks. The new Fun Run website is under construction and we hope it will be live by 1 July.  It will have an event entry form and will take payments, and will promote the Seminars.  We have a District grant to help fund the site which Paul Williamson (from the Macquarie Park Club) is developing through his company Complete Web Services.

 

The sponsorship drive so far has not been as successful as we hoped.  More effort will go towards getting sponsors in the next month. If you know of any potential sponsors, please email Annette Billington or Pat Perrin and they will follow up.

 

We have an addition to the Organising Committee from Macquarie University Rotaract - Emma Lawson.  Emma helped with the promotion of the May Seminar and she will be organising Rotaract to help with the Fun Run.  We will provide an opportunity for Rotaract to sell their products from Cambodia at the event.

 

President Shankar has succeeded in getting a project management internship started at UTS, where he works.  That might provide a project manager to help from July on - Maggie certainly hopes so!